office 08 runs anything BUT brilliantly, but the good news is that iWork 08 an amazing office suite that handles everything I throw at it here at school.
I bought a new laptop at the beggining of this year for college. it was top of line when I bought it, 4gb ram, huge hd, quick intel core 2 duo, but windows vista was seriously making it slower than my old pentium 4 desktop. it was insane! it was a gateway, and they (and most other pc manufacturers) dont even make windows xp drivers for their new laptops so downgrading to good old windows xp was not even an option.
It was such a nightmare that I sold my laptop to someone on my floor in the dorms, and bought a new macbook in white right after their most recent revision. and iWork was literally a quarter of the price of the Office 08 software. Office 08 is majorly buggy, even SP1 for it failed to fix most peoples problems. there are many alternatives though, open office, neo office, iwork, the older (but more stable) office 2004, etc.
It was the best decision I ever made! tell him the quarter I got my macbook, I also got a 4.0 hahah! its true!
